The prosecution’s case against Guzman, a roughly 5½-foot figure whose nickname translates to “Shorty,” included the testimony of several turncoats and other witnesses. through secret tunnels or hidden in tanker trucks, concealed in the undercarriage of passenger cars and packed in rail cars passing through legitimate points of entry - suggesting that a border wall wouldn’t be much of a worry. Cogan said it made him “very proud to be an American.”Įvidence showed drugs poured into the U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan lauded the jury’s meticulous attention to detail and the “remarkable” approach it took toward deliberations. When the jurors were discharged and Guzman stood to leave the courtroom, the couple traded thumbs-ups. They sorted through what authorities called an “avalanche” of evidence gathered since the late 1980s that Guzman and his murderous Sinaloa drug cartel made billions in profits by smuggling tons of cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana into the U.S.Īs the judge read the verdict, Guzman stared at the jury, and his wife watched the scene, both with resignation in their faces. prison selected to thwart another one of the breakouts that made him a folk hero in his native country.Ī jury whose members’ identities were kept secret as a security measure reached a verdict after deliberating six days in the expansive case. Guzman listened to a drumbeat of guilty verdicts on drug and conspiracy charges that could put the 61-year-old escape artist behind bars for decades in a maximum-security U.S.

NEW YORK - Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted Tuesday of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a tunnel. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) Elizabeth Williams Seated at the defense table, from left are, an interpreter, Guzman, and defense attorneys William Purpura and Eduardo Balarezo. The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday. In this courtroom drawing, defendant Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, second from left, listens to the judge while staring at the jury as the verdict is read in his drug trafficking trail, Tuesday, Feb. On Tuesday, Mexico's most notorious drug lord was convicted of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation after a three-month trial packed with Hollywood-style tales of grisly killings, political payoffs, cocaine hidden in jalapeno cans, jewel-encrusted guns and a naked escape with his mistress through a tunnel.

DEA VIA APĮmma Coronel Aispuro, center, wife of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, leaves federal court in New York, Tuesday, Feb. (Elizabeth Williams via AP) Elizabeth WilliamsĪuthorities escort Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, center, from a plane to a waiting caravan of SUVs at Long Island MacArthur Airport in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2019, after a jury in New York, convicted her husband on drug conspiracy charges. In this courtroom drawing, Emma Coronel Aispuro, right, wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, reacts, Tuesday, Feb. In this courtroom drawing, Emma Coronel Aispuro, wife of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, sits in the gallery listening, via earphones, to an interpreter reading a verdict in Spanish, Tuesday, Feb. Elizabeth Williams via AP) Elizabeth Williams The notorious Mexican drug lord was convicted of drug-trafficking charges, Tuesday, Feb. In this courtroom drawing, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, second from right, accompanied by US Marshalls, gestures a 'thumbs up' to his wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, as he leaves the courtroom, Tuesday, Feb.

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